I’m part of a research project studying the effects of environmental change on the animals of tropical Queensland over the last half-million years. This is a pretty long stretch of time (by human standards, anyway), and it includes some major changes in Queensland’s environment. One of the big shifts that we’ve identified is the widespread […]

By Jonathan Cramb|2018-11-06T01:38:36+00:00November 6th, 2018|Fossils|Comments Off on Two new fossil species of short-tailed mice discovered in caves of tropical Queensland

When I first started volunteering at the Queensland Museum I was given a box full with hundreds of thousands of very tiny fossilised bones known as ‘microfossils’. These fossils belonged to a range of small-bodied vertebrate species such as frogs, lizards, birds, possums, bandicoots and rodents, just to name a […]

It doesn’t seem like 30 years ago when I drove up the Bruce Highway from Brisbane in a little red Ford laser, mattress strapped to the car roof with my ten year old daughter, more like a hippie from the sixties than the new owner of Olsen’s […]

Come out to the Caves for our most popular tour! No booking is required with 7 guaranteed tours per day every hour from 9am to 4pm. A leisurely walk through 9 caves, and leaves you with lasting memories of ancient geology and history. An exciting way to end the tour is navigate your […]

By Capricorn Caves|2018-06-19T00:57:40+00:00June 19th, 2018|Things To Do|Comments Off on Things to do in Rockhampton these School Holidays

Fungi is not something we learn much about in school, if anything at all. Even in an Environmental Science degree you do not delve deep into the wonderful and complex world of fungi. Throughout human history, there has always been a connection and understanding of fungi, some of this knowledge is only just starting to […]

The Capricorn Caves is a desired tourist location for many international visitors each year.

The 390 million year old cave system has a wide appeal from tourists interested geographically in the ancient past of the Caves as well as families from abroad seeking out a guided tours of the Capricorn Caves.